This is a list of trolleybus systems in Brazil by Estado. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

Bahia

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Salvador 9 January 1959 June 1968  

Ceará

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Fortaleza 25 January 1967 February 1972  

Minas Gerais

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Belo Horizonte 30 May 1953 22 January 1969 Construction of a second system was started, in the late 1980s,Trolleybus Magazine (TM) No. 164, March–April 1989, p. 40. but never completed, and the plans were eventually cancelled.

Pernambuco

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Recife 15 June 1960 24 September 2001 TM No. 257, Sep.-Oct. 2004, p. 111.  

Rio de Janeiro

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Campos (dos Goytacazes) 29 June 1958 12 June 1967     Niterói 21 November 1953 10 November 1967     Rio de Janeiro:         ♦ Zona Norte April 1965 April 1971 (?)     ♦ Zona Sul 3 September 1962 July 1968 (?)  

Rio Grande do Sul

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Porto Alegre 7 December 1963 19 May 1969  

São Paulo

Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes   Araraquara 27 December 1959 20 November 2000     Ribeirão Preto 24 July 1982 2 July 1999 TM No. 227, Sep.-Oct. 1999, p. 112.     Rio Claro 9 May 1986 July 1993     Santos 12 August 1963   See also Trolleybuses in Santos. SPTrans (urban) São Paulo 22 April 1949   See also Trolleybuses in São Paulo. Metropolitano São Mateus - Jabaquara - EMTU, (METRA), (Next Mobilidade) Greater São Paulo 3 December 1988   Serves neighboring towns including Diadema, São Bernardo do Campo and Santo André.See also Trolleybuses in São Paulo and São Mateus–Jabaquara Metropolitan Corridor.

See also

List of trolleybus systems, for all other countries List of town tramway systems in Brazil List of light-rail transit systems List of rapid transit systems Trolleybus usage by country

Sources

Books and periodicals Murray, Alan. 2000. World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia (). Reading, Berkshire, UK: Trolleybooks. Peschkes, Robert. 1980. World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems - Part One, Latin America (). Exeter, UK: Quail Map Company. Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.

Website Morrison, Allen (November 2007). Latin American Trolleybus Installations Retrieved on 2010-04-05.

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